Ted: I will raise this with the IESG. Of the many variants that were discussed, this was not one of them. Russ On May 7, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Ted Hardie wrote: > As a clarifying question, did the IESG discuss whether the image of > the blue sheets might be made available online under other terms of > use, rather than within the proceedings? For example, making these > available to anyone with a tools login, so that anyone willing to > register as a user has access, but they are not broadcast? > > regards, > > Ted Hardie > > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:46 AM, IETF Chair <chair@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We have heard from many community participants, and consensus is quite rough on this topic. The IESG discussed this thread and reached two conclusions: >> >> (1) Rough consensus: an open and transparent standards process is more important to the IETF than privacy of blue sheet information. >> >> (2) Rough consensus: inclusion of email addresses is a good way to distinguish participants with the same or similar names. >> >> >> Based on these conclusions, the plan is to handle blue sheets as follows: >> >> - Continue to collect email addresses on blue sheets; >> >> - Scan the blue sheet and include the image in the proceedings for the WG session; >> >> - Add indication to top of the blue sheet so people know it will be part of the proceedings; and >> >> - Discard paper blue sheets after scanning. >> >> >> On behalf of the IESG, >> Russ >> >